Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
This was the early version of Google. Using these humble wooden drawers, generations of scholars and researchers, desperate students and cunning spies, despairing parents and fanatical bibliophiles, and every other shape and size of reader delved into the depth and breadth Continue reading Early version of Google
Louisville is a seaport, of sorts. The Louisville, Kentucky, “seacoast” is the waterfront along the Ohio River, with that other coastal state, Indiana, just across the water. Barge traffic has moved up and down the river for a couple of Continue reading Along the Louisville waterfront
No, this is not another Internet posting of a food photo. Instead, it is a posting about art and craft and workmanship. Who cares what it is, or what it tastes like: this is a seriously impressive piece of engineering.
The University of Maryland women’s basketball team met the U.S. Army Military Academy’s women’s basketball team in the first round of the 2014 NCAA tournament and — Army did a credible job, showing crisp teamwork and passion, but lost by Continue reading University of Maryland versus Army
In the United States, you can start a riot, or sink a political campaign, or fill nightly newscasts for a week with a real or implied desecration of the American flag. But apparently there is nothing at all wrong with Continue reading Bottle cap Flag
Some of the 257 (and counting) rubber duckies surrounding one coworker’s cubicle. Each one is unique: There is nothing more to be said, other than to note that the person in question is a computer techie. Award winning! Another photo Continue reading Ducks!
NOAA is the world’s leading publisher of original content on the Internet. Not collected from others, but direct publishing. Every day, NOAA instruments, programs, projects and people push a steady stream of environmental, technical and scientific information out to the Continue reading NOAA Patch and Coins
I was just alerted to a new site, ackuna.com, that is promoting their crowd-source translation capabilities by showing how bad machine translation can be. To illustrate this, you type in some text, and their “Bad Translator” feature runs it back Continue reading Automatic translation
What happens when a high-tech urinal crashes? It no longer flushes, but it does flash an indicator light and occasionally beeps. No, it was not made by Microsoft. The beep sound occurs only about once every ten seconds. This is Continue reading When plumbing fails